Gales Seafarers Ale / Best Bitter

Brewed by Fuller’s
Style: Bitter
London, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask at the White Horse, Hertford on 3 September 2010. Clear amber with offwihte film of foam giving partial lacing. Aroma is quite hoppy and the main kick contains grassy hop and a briefly soapy taste, all rounded off by sweetish caramel malt notes. Bittersweet finish, citric and grassy but sweetness lingers on front of mouth; bitterness increases on back of mouth. Light, watery, cooling texture. Rather enjoyable.

Clear amber; faint malty aroma; malty, slightly grainy flavour, balanced with a light hop bitterness; a dry malty finish; a fresh and enjoyable session beer

Hand pulled pint taken at the lovely ’Faltering Fullback’ in North London; Oct 2011: UK pint sleeve glass, unmarked. The beer was a pale copper colour, clear and bright. The head a good showing of off-white bubbles which settled and stayed. A lot better looking than the bottled version I reviewed some years back. Good healthy aroma of hops and malts, no overpowering smell, just enough to let you know it’s a beer in your hand. Very easy to drink, I had three pints and wanted more, but the wife needed food. A really good blend of flavours, like the nose nothing powerful, just a subdued pleasantness all round.

pours amber with a small white head. the aroma is light, and flowery with some biscuits. taste is nothing complex, some fruit, some sweetness, a bit thin. it was ok, but nothing special.

First tasted this at the Bull Inn, Paisley in August 1994. Cask, handpump dispense. Clear copper red in colour with a thick white head. Strong aroma of soft toffee notes. Thin but creamy mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malts give a robust digestive biscuit malt with a strong sweet flavour of Highland toffee full in the mouth. Slight prickle of dusty hops short in the aftertaste gives a slight earthy wet leaves note. Finish is sweet and malty with a hint of dry currants present in the mouth. An enjoyable session bitter

Low-impact simple bitter. Standard copper color with a modest white head that quickly dissipates. The nose is light, a little floral with some biscuity malts present too. The taste is lightly sweet, with a watery, simple finish. Refreshing enough.

Cask in Surbiton Flyer. Light brown clear ale. Nose is nice citrous hop notes, bit of fruitiness and light grain. Taste is light, with a little fruit, little citrous and light cereal/grainy malt. Touch dry on finish.

Cask at the GBBF 2011. Golden with a small white head. Fruity aroma with biscuit and bread, and a hint of diacetyl. Sweet malty flavour with fruity hops and medium bitterness

Cask, The University Arms, Sheffield, UK. Medium gold, cereal aroma with a faint citrus. Very standard flavour, balanced and drinkable but nothing noteworthy.

Cask @ Wheatsheaf, Borough SE1. Pours a clear copper color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty weak caramel aroma. Fruity malty caramel flavor with weak hoppy hints. Has a fruity malty caramel finish.

Cask at The Bull in Sonning. August 2011. Nice light session beer, watery palate, fine for a lunch time pint